Most people don't want freedom. They want rules and mods to enforce them so they don't see things that they find offensive.
If everything is self-hosted, why would community wishes matter? Just block the people that disagree with you and do what you want. If you're getting abused, block the abusers. If people are disruptive, ignore them. That's pretty much how the internet used to work back when we were using forums and personal sites instead of modern social media.
I think the only way it could work would be if everyone had their own self-hosted site, otherwise the admin/owner would have power over the users. With everyone using their own individual instance, they can block content they don't want to see but no one has any power over others.
It would be too complicated for normal people to set up and use, and most wouldn't want to pay for hosting when they can use Facebook for "free".
I am very confused. Did someone else send the text in the spoiler to you?
Yourself, for what you posted.
For information, it was a pic of a funny man draped in an ukrainian flag with david star in the middle doing a nazy salute… so yeah not the most tastefull
I thought that was like borderline censuring.
It seems like the only one who censured you was yourself?
Donations work too.
No one. It's too much energy to be spent on people that I dislike.
They always knew, they just didn't care.
Exploding Heads exploded. They're not on lemmy anymore.